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Some background In my recent post about the responsibilities of an open-source developer I said that the author of an open-source project is fully entitled to reject a contribution. In the case of Fluent Assertions, this is no different. Some things just aren't a good fit for a general purpose a...

For a very VERY long time I've been convinced that aggressively refactoring your code in such a way that every piece of logic is repeated only once is a good thing. This practice, often referred to as DRY, or Don't Repeat Yourself, has been one of the many of my tools of choice and goes hand in h...

Somebody on Twitter recently posed the question whether innovation in software and agile development can co-exist or not. To remove any misinterpretation - something quite common for Twitter discussion - I asked him to clarify what he meant with the word 'innovation'. In short, any kind of softwa...

The proudest moment anybody initiating an open-source project can experience is when that project finally gains the momentum to make a difference within the community it targets. When my colleague Martin and I published the first release of Fluent Assertions on CodePlex in 2011 (yeah, those were ...

As you might have read, I've been refactoring some example code for a multi-threaded cache that I got from CodeProject into a source-only NuGet package which will soon be published as FluidCaching. Since this cache has been built to be very performant, the internal algorithms are not trivial to g...